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  The Mother Corn Shuckers is an acoustic bluegrass band that “started out as a bunch of guys around the campfire” playing music, said Mark Hughes of Arroyo Grande.

  Hughes coined the term “beer grass” because “we all like to drink beer,” while playing around the campfire.

  The group’s website calls them a “ragged band of surf-a-billies,” who play “foot stompin’ melodies.” Some of their songs include “Corn Liquor,” “Bottom of the Sea” and “Highway.”

• By the Bay: A tribute to a mom and teacher

  By the Bay: A tribute to a mom and teacher

  ‘Marlene (Peter) was my third- and fourth-grade teacher and my favorite,” said John Anderson, Dave Peter’s partner in The Galley Restaurant of Morro Bay.

  “Mom taught half the kids in this community,” Peter said. “Everyone wanted Mrs. Peter to be their teacher. Regularly someone comments she was their best teacher while at Morro or Del Mar Elementary.”

  Marlene Peter was born in Sisseton, S.D., on the family farm she and her sisters still own. When teachers were scarce, she taught before even graduating from the University of Wyoming.

• Letters to the Editor 3/26

  Letters to the Editor 3/26

  Rush open to criticism

  Several letters lately have taken the side of Rush Limbaugh on the basis that he has the right of free speech, and that his excoriating words regarding the Georgetown law student who testified before a congressional committee that contraceptive medications are not always prescribed to prevent pregnancy; that often they are prescribed to prevent or control diseases in women. She mentioned that she, too, used birth control but did not mention why she used it. Her testimony concerned her friend who couldn’t afford the variety required to control her very serious medical condition.

  Ms. Fluke is a private citizen. There are laws to protect private citizens from libelous comments. What Limbaugh did to this young woman, if not libelous, is definitely reprehensible. There are no libel laws protecting public citizens. Assuming that making a single public statement raises a private citizen to public status will immediately prevent the majority of people from doing so, thus diminishing the

• SLO County residents share their unique marriage proposal stories

  SLO County residents share their unique marriage proposal stories

  While on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, last June, Diana Flatley looked into the night sky and saw an AC-130 gunship that bore asecret message for her. Because she was wearing night vision goggles, she could read the hidden note, written in phosphorescent paint, on the plane’s side: “Diana I Love You,” it read. “Marry Me?” One of her Army buddies then quickly led her to a computer at the base, which was displaying the face of her boyfriend, Robert Anderson, who was online at his computer in San Luis Obispo. Surrounded by her unit, the still-shocked Flatley happily gave her answer, via Skype. “Yes, you son of a b----!” she yelled.

  With Valentine’s Day approaching, we thought it’d be interesting to hear how some local couples became engaged. So we asked readers to share their proposal stories. Some of them used creative approaches. Others became engaged in unusual or exotic places. And several had interesting stories about how they met.

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• Rays struggle again, lose 6-2 to Blue Jays

  Rays struggle again, lose 6-2 to Blue Jays

  Little went right for the Tampa Bay Rays after B.J. Upton's video review homer.